Rockland resident summonsed on car quagmire

A criminal complaint has been filed by Hingham District Court against Rockland resident Kevin McGee, after a clerk hearing between McGee and town officials took place on June 30. What that means is that the matter at hand will now be tried in an actual courtroom, according to Rockland Town Administrator Allan Chiocca.

In March, after the complaint was filed against McGee, Rockland Police Det. Sgt. Gregory Pigeon was dispatched to McGee’s Union Street property to investigate whether cars were being sold.

In an incident report, Pigeon stated, “Attorney Galvin had viewed a website, www.columbiamotors.com, which contained a number of used cars for sale. Included in this website appeared to be a number of cars for sale at a lot owned by (McGee)….”

The report goes on to say that many cars were photographed by police on the lot in question, 14 of them to be exact.

“Any reasonable person would view this property and the website, www.bestbuycars.com and believe that (McGee) is in the business of selling used vehicles on this property,” Pigeon stated in the report.

Pigeon states in the report that an undercover officer was also used last month during the investigation to see if McGee was selling cars.

“(The detective that met with McGee) that he was at the lot for over an hour and (McGee) was clearly attempting to sell him a vehicle,” the report reads.

Page 2 of 2 - Chiocca stressed McGee has the option of operating at another location in town, just not the location in the residential area on Union Street.